Simon Wheatcroft is about to run from Boston to New York. He intends to ________ a distance of about 240 miles in nine days and once he gets to New York he’s going to run a marathon. ________ other runners, Wheatcroft is blind. He suffers from retinitis pigmentosa (色素性视网膜炎), a genetic condition which made him lose ________ gradually.

In spite of his ________ , he decided to take up running to get into shape. At first, Wheatcroft ________ around a local football field, but quite quickly he grew ________ of it. He decided to take his running out on to the paths and after a few months he mastered a ________ . With the help of the ________ prompts (提示) on his phone’s Runkeeper app, he could ________ where there was a turn.

After just six months of running he had a greater ________— а 100-mile marathon. “Why not ________ yourself to do something you can achieve? So I thought I would push it,” he said.

The first ________ was absolutely brutal (残忍的). He’d only been training for six months, during which period he was doing most of his training at a ________ airport. But this race was in the rough Cotswolds (科茨沃尔德丘陵). “The race was 100 miles long and to be honest, I ________ it. The hill made it very difficult. I ended up ________ at 83 miles,” he added.

But this time with better preparations, he feels more ________ . In fact, Wheatcroft is more interested in the ________ aspect of the event than the final result. Time doesn’t ________ to me. You always have more ________ at the back where people are talking and you can stop and get sweets from people and things! I want to be able to talk to people and enjoy it.

Wheatcroft hopes that other blind people will be ________ to take up running as a result of his adventures.

A lot of people fear getting old, because aging is often linked to loneliness. But Terry, 75, in Green Bay, knows _________ what to do to keep sadness from seeping(渗透) into his _________.

Terry, an animal lover whose heart has a very _________ spot for cats, frequently drops by the animal shelter in Green Bay to hold the _________ cats close and have a short see with them!

The charming _________ of the old man having a short seep while surrounded with cats _________ the workers. It showed such beautiful _________ that the workers always found themselves taking _________ of Terry and all the cats and posting them on the Facebook page.

_________, one photo with the cat, Lois, appealed to the followers of the page and __________ over 47,000 “likes”! In fact, in less than a day, Lois was __________ by a new family!

Terry has become popular on the Internet. But more than.the __________, the old man is very happy to know that his love for cats is bringing a lot of help to the animal shelter by __________ a lot of people to donate to the shelter.

Terry is happy, the __________ behind which is not difficult to understand. His story just goes to show how a small __________ can make a big difference.

When my grandmother, who had Alzheimer’s disease, went to live in the nurses station 5 years ago, I tried many things to keep her occupied. But it was only her word search book that kept her ______. Gradually, she began to think of it as her job and it kept her from ______.

Last night, when I came to her and said hello, she just looked at me ______. I introduced myself and told her I was her granddaughter. She seemed ______ about who I was. Obviously, she tried to find this word in her ______. So I helped her find it with fingers and ______ it for her with a pencil.

Later, I suggested we go outside, and she agreed. Then she was just staring at me as if trying to figure me out. I told her ______ I was her granddaughter. “Oh, okay” she said ______ but still didn’t really know. She just wanted to be kind.

And after we went ______ and I got her ready for and into bed, she told me to come ______ and we kissed and hugged real tight ______ we did for the first time. It wasn’t the first time though and sooner or later there would be a ______ time.

For now, I feel the blessing of the ______ although I have a sinking feeling that our days are numbered. It doesn’t ______ if the word “granddaughter” holds no ______ anymore — we are bound by love not labels.